Some gems in this week’s mailbag: Following up on our conversation with a caller hoping to promote less-violent alternatives to the phrase kill two birds with one stone, a listener who grew up in India wrote in with one from her native language. In...
The name of that horse with a light gold coat, the palomino, derives from Spanish for young dove, because these animals share similar coloring. In the same way, a sorrel horse has the same color as a certain kind of sorrel plant. The names for the...
hasher n.— «Viacom is employing a company called BayTSP to search video sharing sites for infringing content. BayTSP employs around 20 video analysts that are sometimes referred to as “hashers” to search the Web for copyrighted content.» —“Private...
